I was optimistic about my grades this semester. Now I'm not so sure. But we'll see i have roughly 3 weeks left. Arbeit macht frei? that statement can be true. but probably not for me. Work is easy enough. In German we have a novel we're reading, called "Der Vorleser" and its a pretty philosophical work etc etc its good but we have to read literally 40 pages in a day. Its pretty simple German but it still takes FOREVER....so i didn't go to class and evidentially neither did half the people haha.
Ok so i have my first game to talk about on this blog thing: Eve of Destruction mod for Battlefield 2. To be honest its really freakin' good. I've played all those other Vietnam shooter games, like Viet Cong and (several others, the names slip me) and this one is as good as any. Theres only one or two really full servers that play the mod, and its a blast. The combat style is incredibly intense. Charlie pops up out of the grass all the damn time. If you're a Vietcong its hard as hell to kill an American because you're weapons are such shit. If you own Battlefield 2, you need to check this shit out.
There are of course plenty of bugs in the game that still need to be dealt with. Occasionally there are lag issues and spawn issues, but as a mod i understand it needs some work (and they're still working). The sounds also have some interesting bugs and the ambient sounds are annoying as fuck from time to time. My roommate and I play together and sometimes i hear the ambient sounds and he doesn't, then sometimes he hears them and i don't. The sounds for the weaponry is awesome. The problem is, it makes it sound like the weapon is next to your ear when its really 100 yards away. But it gives the feeling of intense combat, and by all means this game does just that. My favorite has to be the mortars, where you can sit and fire from a distance and follow the shell in. If trained in right on a spawn or an area of clustered marines (or that lone son-of-a-bitch sniper) then it is the most deadly weapon in the game. Watching the bodies fly in the air (as sick as that sounds) its a blast.
Intense shit
You've got marines picking off charlies at will, then the Vietcong will throw a grenade and assault out of the grassy rice paddy where you thought nothing was there. Boom your dead. Fuck!
Please remember I'm new at this gaming review stuff (hopefully, just maybe i can contribute (for $) to a gaming magazine someday, but all in all, this is a terribly written review, alas i am still hungover from the previous night of drinking (German party, plenty of good German beers). Either way it was my first shot, its no Penny Arcade or Gamespot, but i hope it provides whoever reads this (if anybody) a look from the point of view of the normal gamer. But this mod is great and you NEED to check it out!
"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
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